Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 06:23am on 27 May 2026,Wednesday India
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the legality of the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise and clarified that removal of a person’s name from electoral rolls does not mean loss of Indian citizenship. A bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant said the Election Commission can examine citizenship only for deciding inclusion or exclusion from voter lists, not for determining citizenship status itself. The verdict came on petitions challenging the SIR process, which required some voters to prove ancestral linkage with names in the 2002 or 2003 electoral rolls. Petitioners had alleged the exercise was a “backdoor citizenship verification” process. (PC: India Today)
